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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda

Form
Form Poetry Collection
Year
Year 1924
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 50

A very young poet counts through the loves of his youth in twenty poems, body and landscape flowing into each other, and closes with a song for the one who is gone.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Pablo Neruda

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